Hilding Rosenberg

Hilding Rosenberg is the first to dedicate a biography in the series that the Royal Musical Academy and Bokförlaget Atlantis.

Broman, Per Olov

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The most infamous review in Swedish music history was published in 1923. Wilhelm Peterson-Berger wrote of musicians who performed as "four runaway Konradsbergers, where they faithfully reproduce the barbaric night-darkened fantasies of a fifth..." These words and a host of other invectives applied to a string quartet of the then thirty-year-old Hilding Rosenberg, who would later come to be known both as the trailblazer of modernism and as the grand old man of Swedish music.

Hilding Rosenberg is the first to have a biography dedicated to him in the series that the Royal Academy of Music and Bokförlaget Atlantis are now starting with portraits of Swedish composers in the 20th century. The books in the series are relatively short and easily accessible with rich visual material, detailed lists of works and information about available recordings.

»Per Olov Broman's book is knowledgeable and well written and gives a thorough picture of Rosenberg's entire work as a composer. We get to follow his development from the first shocking breaches of tradition to his most famous works..«
Åke Leijonhufvud in Sydsvenska Dagbladet